What is it like to be a Muslim Where You Live

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ISLAMASWEENEY said:
Usa has a lot of Muslims because it is a big country so there is more people there
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Yes we are a large country, in terms of area. But compared to much of the world our population density is very thin. For example Texas is roughly the same size as Pakistan but the population of Pakistan at 149 Million is nearly equal to half the population of the entire US at 300 million.


We do have an estimated 10 million Muslims in the US. but we seem to be mostly in just 4 or 5 States. Out of the 50 States at least 40 have few Muslims or an insignificantly small number. Texas has the third largest Muslim Population in the US.

It is hard to actually tell how many Muslims are in the USA as in the US it is illegal to require a person to reveal his religion. Most public records have no count of religious preference.

The known numbers are:

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Mosques in the United States: 1,209
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American Muslims associated with a mosque: 2 million
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Increase in number of mosques since 1994: 25 percent
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Proportion of mosques founded since 1980: 62 percent
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Average number of Muslims associated with each mosque in the United States: 1,625
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U.S. mosque participants who are converts: 30 percent
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American Muslims who "strongly agree" that they should participate in American institutions and the political process: 70 percent
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U.S. mosques attended by a single ethnic group: 7 percent
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U.S. mosques that have some Asian, African-American, and Arab members: nearly 90 percent
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Ethnic origins of regular participants in U.S. mosques:
South Asian (Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, Afghani) = 33 percent
African-America = 30 percent
Arab = 25 percent
Sub-Saharan African = 3.4 percent
European (Bosnian, Tartar, Kosovar, etc.) = 2.1 percent
White American = 1.6 percent
Southeast Asian ( Malaysian, Indonesian, Filipino) = 1.3 percent
Caribbean = 1.2 percent
Turkish = 1.1 percent
Iranian = 0.7 percent
Hispanic/Latino = 0.6 percent

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U.S. mosques that feel they strictly follow the Koran and Sunnah: more than 90 percent
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U.S. mosques that feel the Koran should be interpreted with consideration of its purposes and modern circumstances: 71 percent
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U.S. mosques that provide some assistance to the needy: nearly 70 percent
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U.S. mosques with a full-time school: more than 20 percent
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Source: http://www.allied-media.com/AM/

at least 30% of the US Muslims are reverts.
 
well in leicester uk ere i live its packed out its packed out with muslims so its kinda easy being a practesing muslim but when you go to ton then ye you do get the odd look:p
 
I live in the United States. People are diverse and stick to each other here.

Muslim here are diverse as well. The Majority are Arabs and Blacks and some Whites. People here should not confused the prejudice against Arabs with hate against Islam. Arabs are a Muslim majority here so they think people make fun of them because they are Muslims rather than just being Arab. If a Christian Arab has a dark skin, the chances are that they will be hated for being Muslims and Arabs. People here just think that Muslims are either Blacks or Arabs. They don't know that some white people are Muslims as well. So it is kinda confusing...

If someone is White he or she might not feel the same way as an Arab under prejudice. The owomen wearing scarves are generally soccer moms. Whenever I see a women with a scarf on, that means she is with a stroller watching her kids and basically staying home all the time. i can almost say that 99.99% of women with scarves here are not doing anything professional with their lives. No one would hire them lol

That is about it.
 
^^Umm 99.99 percent? Is that your estimate. Thats a bit too extreme. And if they choose to live their lives professionally or not, either way they build an effect on their future generation, regardless of where they are. Still 99.99 percent is well...not accurate I think..lol.
 
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^^Umm 99.99 percent? Is that your estimate. Thats a bit too extreme. And if they choose to live their lives professionally or not, either way they build an effect on their future generation, regardless of where they are. Still 99.99 percent is well...not accurate I think..lol.
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Some women wearing scarves are in college getting their degrees. Once they do that they face the reality check. They have to either choose between a scarf or a career. Women dress sexy and elegantly in the corporate world for a reason. A scarf is not a beauty accessory since it is only Muslim women, Nuns and grannies who wear it. I am not saying that the women are ugly, it is just that scarves make them look less attractive and less professional. No denial, no hard feelings.

Muslim women with scarves get married or are already married so they favor letting the man handle the money situation and they fill their empty time raising the kids and making even more kids. That is exactly what i see in the streets. Women with their monsters playing or taking a walk. They have no technical future whatsoever.

Show me an engineer or an accountant or some sort of corporate woman wearing a scarf in America and i will show you a chicken with teeth..
 
Ok so you'll have to show me a chicken with teeth now...:D My child doctor wen i was a kid was a scarfy. So yea you cant base your conclusions on only the women in your streets and estimate it for the rest of the planet.
 
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Wa 'alaikum assalam,

I'm in Canada.. where I live, there are quite a few muslims Alhamdulillah :D It's not particularly difficult to practise here, although there is a lot of culture mixed in in certain masjids unfortunately. Everyone is very diverse in the masjid that I go to Masha'Allah, and there aren't any issues with culture Alhamdulillah :)
 

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